I used to be the guy who did everything by feel for 15 years, and honestly I got lucky more times than I want to admit. Then about 3 years ago I watched a coworker crack a plastic valve cover on a Nissan because he went "just a little past snug" and it was a $400 part plus a tow. That one stuck with me. These new aluminum and plastic pans are nothing like the old cast iron stuff where you could wrench on it and it would forgive you. The threads pull way easier and once they strip you are pulling the pan or tapping it, which nobody wants on a Tuesday afternoon. Now I keep the torque wrench right on the cart and just look up the number, it takes 30 seconds and saves me the headache.

Watching dense time travel isn't really harder, it's just more work and that work is the whole point. Dark gives you cheat sheets basically, the family tree, the website, the recaps, because the show wants you to keep up, it just refuses to slow down for you. A crime procedural tells you who did it in 42 minutes and resets next week, which is a totally different deal. The headache you're feeling is your brain being asked to hold three timelines in your head at once, and that feels good after a while. I'd say try something with a puzzle but less math, like The Leftovers or Severance, so you get the same buzz without needing a whiteboard.